Advice Quote by Gustave Flaubert

I think two different people can read one of my books and come away with completely different opinions on the subject. I hope they…

— Eric Schlosser

At the same time, I think books create a sort of network in the reader's mind, with one book reinforcing another. Some books form…

— Margaret Mahy

The only thing I knew about novels from a technical point of view was that they should have conflict.

— Diana Gabaldon

“Books and people are alike in one respect: they're both full of thoughts.”

— Matthew Lipman

Books are always obviously having conversations with other books, and some times they're amiable and sometimes not.

— China Mieville

If you're going to have more than one person read your book, they're going to have totally different opinions and responses. No person -…

— Diana Gabaldon

Every really good book was written a little at a time, over time, in tremendous confusion and doubt.

— Richard Bausch

For books continue each other, in spite of our habit of judging them separately.

— Virginia Woolf

“Because two people can’t have entirely different opinions without one of them being final.”

— Elizabeth Strout

This is what I have discovered - and it has been a gift in itself - that books live over and over again in…

— Rachel Joyce

I understood we used to be close. But they were like books i'd read two summer ago; I knew I'd liked them, but I…

— Sara Shepard

I guess there is also an element of deliberate change involved. Each of my books has been, at least from my point of view,…

— George Murray